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Playful Japanese husbands tend to find this coy secrecy infinitely charming, but hardhearted Japanese tax collectors are less pleased by it: Suspecting, that many a plump income lurks behind the kimonoed coquetry of their nation's 29,065 licensed geishas, the taxmen have evolved a system whereby a geisha's income is estimated on the basis of the time she spends at work. Those suspected of earning more than $500 a year are taxed as high...
While Congressional taxmen were agreeing on the new corporation tax laws last week (see p. 88), they also revamped personal income taxes. Most significant change for the health of the capital markets was made in the onerous capital-gains taxes, which up to now have forced many U.S. investors to buy and sell with one eye on what the tax laws favored instead of both eyes on down-to-earth economic laws...
...complicated tax system now existing in Mexico is much like that of mediaeval times, and men are so reluctant to enter business there and incur all the petty taxmen connected with it that trade is becoming restricted, and unless a radical change is made in the system the country may have to pass through another and more terrible revolution than any of the preceding ones...